Curtain Call
Digital Media Law:
“We are not done yet!” shouted Screen Actors Guild leader Doug Allen three times at the guild’s anti-AFTRA rally last week. Evidently not, but Hollywood is beyond well-done and beginning to burn. It’s time for SAG to put its full efforts into crafting the best deal it can get, rather than try to derail the AFTRA primetime deal.
Why? Several reasons. For one thing, attempting to defeat the AFTRA deal is a futile exercise. The members of AFTRA – the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, SAG’s smaller rival – approved a similar daytime deal by an affirmative vote of 93% of those voting. It’s almost impossible to believe that SAG can cut that percentage to 49% – i.e., virtually in half – which is what would be necessary to nullify the deal.
For another thing, even if the incredible were to happen, SAG’s stated goal of…